A board game scanner
Scan it before you play it.
Point your phone at a board game, or at your whole shelf. Meeple Scan shows each game's BoardGameGeek rating, complexity and best player count in about two seconds.
Open it on your phone
Point your phone's camera at this code.
OCR + AI vision
About 90% of boxes recognised, even a whole shelf at once
Totally free
No ads, no paid plan
No account
Nothing to sign up for: open it and scan
Installable app
Add it to your home screen, no app store needed
History on your phone
Your games stay on your device, not on our servers
One photo, all the stats
Every game on the shelf, confirmed in a tap
Point at the box, or the whole shelf
Rating, complexity and the best player count
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§Rules clarifications
Does it work on a whole shelf?
Yes. Photograph several boxes at once and every game is listed; you confirm each one in a tap.
How accurate is it?
OCR reads the text on the box and an AI vision model names the game: about 90% of boxes are recognised right away. If not, you pick the right game in a tap.
Is it free?
Yes, with no account and no ads. The code is open source on GitHub.
Where do the ratings come from?
From BoardGameGeek, the board game community's reference: average rating, rank, complexity and the players' own poll on the best player count.
What about boxes in other languages?
They're recognised too, from a German Brettspiel to a Japanese edition, and shown under the game's BoardGameGeek name.
What if I don't allow the camera?
Pick a photo from your phone's gallery instead: it's read the same way.
Do you keep my photos?
No. Only the titles read on the box are kept, to make recognition better.
Can I use it on a computer?
Scanning needs a phone: point it at the QR code above to open Meeple Scan there, then add it to your home screen like an app.
Send feedback
A bug, a game not recognised, an idea? Tell us.